obtaining greater efficiency and productivity in defense spending

... chicks, medicine, feed and veterinary services Growers supply land, buildings, labor, and other variable inputs such as electricity and disinfectants Using the information on input sharing, Table ... contracting involves the use of improved and standardised technology and production practices This involves supply of inputs, close contact and training of the contract grower Protecting this investment ... industry engaged in breeding of chicks and manufacturing of feed, vaccines and medicines In order to minimize the risks to the producers and sustain the profitability of the industry, some large...

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... revenue increasing interpretation (similar to the cost reducing interpretation of allocative inefficiency in the input-orientated case) Furthermore, one can define overall economic efficiency as ... inputs by 16.7% without reducing output This implies production at the point denoted 3′ in Figure This projected point, 3′, lies on a line joining points and DMU and DMU are therefore usually ... to international airlines is provided in BIE (1994) Example This is a simple numerical example involving five firms which produce a single output using a single input The data are listed in Table...

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... public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine Dr Bruce M Alberts and Dr Wm A Wulf are chair and vice ... improving survivability and mobility The evaluation and prioritization of competing objectives, and, ultimately, how decisions are made, are increasingly complex In general, the chain of command and ... areas, beginning with the weight reduction of systems and subsystems and leading to improved mobility, survivability, and lethality, while also offering significant capital and operating and maintenance...

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... the intermolecular interactions, the interactions Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries 10 between molecules Process simulation models usually contain information and ... engineering and mixing at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Fairfax, Virginia Hedzer J van der Kooi received his MSc and PhD degrees from Delft University of Technology and specialized in ... SECOND EDITION EFFICIENCY and SUSTAINABILITY in the ENERGY and CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Scientific Principles and Case Studies GREEN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Series Editor: Sunggyu...

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... with many individuals reporting marked impairment of their health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and general well-being [5-8] Productivity, both during leisure time and while working (presenteeism), ... predefined sample size for Sweden and UK was 300 patients (allowing to obtain confidence intervals that will extend 5.7% in the worst possible case) Reduced work productivity was measured using ... consultations in Greece Some 43% of patients were employed (including self-employed), ranging from 34% in Spain to 52% in Sweden Demographic and clinical characteristics of such patients, by country,...

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... varied, including word order, case making, filler-gap dependencies, island constraints, and anaphoric binding Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars is a landmark work, setting a new standard in the ... here: Minimize Domains, Minimize Forms, and Maximize On-line Processing • Greater descriptive and explanatory adequacy can be achieved when efficiency and complexity principles are incorporated into ... to many linguists and psycholinguists Another reason for resisting the PGCH is that theories of processing and use are still in their relative infancy, and many basic issues, including the nature...

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... nutrients in litter fall and crown leaching in a stand of Corsican pine, J Appl Ecol 13 (1976) 233–248 [19] Nambiar E.K.S., Fife D.N., Growth and nutrient retranslocation in needles of radiata pine in ... having a Y-intercept significantly different from zero was determined with linear regressions Since any straight line going through zero is a line with constant percentage nutrient resorption efficiency, ... with the peak of leaf drop for individual species and consisted in collecting falling and recently fallen leaves In order to reduce the error associated with the sampling of leaf litter that was...

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... obliged to retain these elements and reuse them as much as possible, thus favouring more efficient internal recycling [34] and affording the plants a certain independence from the supply coming from ... for N and P (we also use it for K, for comparative purposes) and is shown in table III as NEI (nutrient efficiency index) The second index determined, GEI (general efficiency index), contains all ... since these nutrients are of external origin and are not absorbed directly by the roots stem retained in small branches and bark are difficult to deter- mine) 2.2.2 Calculation of efficiency indices...

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... 2011, pp.845-852 849 loading in the environment and receiving waters, poor water quality, carbon emissions and contamination of the food chain [27] Integrating a legume into a crop rotation is ... only for providing higher energy use efficiency and decreasing production costs, but also for reducing negative effects to the environment, human health and for maintaining sustainability References ... research interests are energy, modeling and simulation, and mechanization E-mail address: shahinrafiee@ut.ac.ir A Jafari was born in 1970, received his B.Sc degree in Agricultural Machinery Engineering...

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... III Spending and Outcomes in Education and Health: Empirical Analysis A Trends in Education and Health Spending and Outcomes B The Relative Efficiency of Education and Health Spending ... Health Spending and HALE .43 Public Health Spending and Standardized Death Rates 43 10 Public Health Spending and Infant Mortality 44 11 Public Health Spending and Child ... health spending is highest in Germany and the U.S., and lowest in Italy, Japan, and the U.K (Figure and Table 6).5 Average public health spending in OECD countries is below spending levels in G7...

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... Option because other options involve them in many other activities including harvesting, cutting roots and drying and collecting cassava chips The difference in margin is not big enough for them ... and global trading systems Priority agendas include development of a comprehensive strategy for agriculture, increasing public investment in the sector, encouraging and facilitating private involvement ... involvement in agriculture and agro-processing, expanding extension services and improving basic infrastructure Priorities for agricultural export development are improving and building up a regulatory...

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... 6: Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the Envision Brainset From Memory to Imagination Defining the Envision Brainset Neuroscience of the Envision Brainset Exercises: The Envision Brainset ... 7: Thinking Divergently: Accessing the Connect Brainset Defining the Connect Brainset Neuroscience of the Connect Brainset When to Access the Connect Brainset Exercises: The Connect Brainset47 ... part in my studies, enrolled in my creativity courses, and consulted me to help them in their creative professions Many of these individuals have been instrumental in talking me into writing this...

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... h θ Grinding wheel Blade Regulating wheel Figure 2: Geometric configuration in plunge grinding Grinding wheel (typically near one hundred) and equation (1) with the actual value of ϕ2 in each ... configuration in throughfeed grinding (workpieces are machined in a continuous run) This equation simply describes the displacement of the contact point between the workpiece and the grinding wheel ... Elimination of Geometric Instabilities in Centerless Grinding, Annals of the CIRP, 54/1:273-276 [2] Rowe W.B., Koeningsberger F., 1965, The Work Regenerative Effect in Centerless Grinding, Int...

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... reviews on methods and tools have recently been published by Banos et al [5] and Collony et al [6] Total Site targeting methodology and its extension including varying supply and demand has been shown ... been applied for one case study taking into account all important thermal RI PT processes The presentation of the minimal heating and cooling demand in the pinch analysis of the case study is ... for applying practical constraints and developing a practical network on site, including available storages Influencing factors for deviation of the theoretic HEN design by the algorithm and the...

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... Defense Working Capital Fund Pricing Policies: Insights from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (Keating and Gates, 1999) That document analyzed the Defense Finance and Accounting Service’s ... reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published 2003 by RAND ... described in this report was prepared for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service The research was conducted in RAND’s National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development...

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... TINA In Proceedings of the August 1989 International Workshop in Parsing Technologies Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Younger, D H 1967 Recognition and Parsing of Context-Free Languages in Time n Information ... noun, find one, and introduce a new edge consisting of a completed NP The edge predicted by the noun will look to the left for a determiner, find one, and also introduce a new edge consisting of ... Picky combines the standard chart parsing data structures with existing bottom-up and top-down parsing operations, and includes a probabilistic version of top-down filtering and over-the-top prediction...

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... sand mining Nickel ore mininga Silver-lead-zinc ore mining Metal ore mining nec 14 Other mining 2034 2.8 15 Services to mining 3563 5.0 B MINING 71 770 100.0 a Bauxite mining and nickel ore mining ... listed in table 2.3 Any processing 12 PRODUCTIVITY IN THE MINING INDUSTRY or refining of a resource by a miner at the mine site is included in the mining industry, whereas processing and refinement ... within mineral sands mining, 1974-75 to 2006-07 A.23 Mineral sand mining: Inputs, outputs and MFP A.24 Mineral sands mining: Impact of resource depletion and capital effects A.25 Mineral sands mining:...

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... aluminum processing and aircraft engine plants together with food processing companies and investment companies 13 Standard and Poor’s (2005) 24 Even though the main players in the banking industry ... Commonwealth of Independent States TE Transition Economies Measuring Efficiency and Explaining Failures in Banking: Application to the Russian Banking Sector Introduction Banking system plays ... Moscow investment bank UFG in 2003 and the remaining 60% in 2006 Citibank, Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein are the three top advisers on mergers and acquisition, each totaling over...

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... energy efficiency projects appeared early as one of the main bottlenecks to increasing trade and cooperation As a result, the project has focused on increasing skills in financial engineering and ... banking system aimed at increasing stability, expanding and improving banking senrices, as well as protecting the interests of depositors and creditors Over the course of three years the state intended ... as follows in 2002: 50.1 percent in industry, 19.5 percent in finance, 16.1 percent in trade, 4.2 percent in tourism, and 4.8 percent in infrastructure and ~onstruction.~' The Foreign Investment...

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